Creating Special Road Repair Fund

SB 23 creates a Special Road Repair Fund within West Virginia's State Road Fund, allowing up to $80 million annually to be transferred specifically for repairing nonfederal aid eligible county roads. It establishes an Enhanced Road Repair Program requiring county supervisors (with county commissions and local legislators) to submit annual priority road repair requests by July 1, based on traffic counts and road condition. Funding is distributed proportionally by mileage of eligible roads, with a minimum $1 million allocation per county, and mandates contracting private vendors for repairs if 50% of core maintenance projects were unfinished the prior year. The program covers pothole repair, paving, ditching, and mowing on county roads, while requiring drainage work before paving. This directly affects county governments, private contractors, and residents who use nonfederal aid roads.